Helping Relationship Characteristics
Book review - 2 pages - Psychology
This document summarizes Carl Rogers' work on the helping relationship, exploring its characteristics and dynamics, and linking it to Francisco Varela's enaction theory.
Stigma Consciousness in Intergroup Contexts
Book review - 4 pages - Psychology
This article explores the impact of stigma consciousness on intergroup interactions, examining how individuals with high stigma consciousness react to sexist and non-sexist conditions.
Managing Telework to Prevent Burn-out: Strategies for a Healthy Work Environment
Book review - 1 pages - Psychology
Discover the hidden risks of telework and its impact on mental health. While telework offers benefits like reduced transport stress and increased professional autonomy, poor management can lead to excessive workload and burnout. Learn how psychosocial approaches and legislative evolution can help...
Role of Right Uncinate Fasciculus in Facial Emotion Processing
Book review - 2 pages - Psychology
A study on the role of the right uncinate fasciculus in decoding emotional content in facial expressions, highlighting its importance in social behavior.
Impact of First Names on Identity and Social Interactions
Book review - 2 pages - Psychology
This article examines the influence of first names on self-image, self-esteem, and personality, as well as their role in social interactions and academic success.
High School Mothers' Support Service Experience
Book review - 2 pages - Psychology
This article discusses the challenges faced by high school mothers and the importance of tailored support to promote their academic success and psychosocial well-being.
Psychosocial Accompaniment and Deviant Behavior in Children
Book review - 3 pages - Psychology
This article explores the concept of psychosocial accompaniment and its role in helping children with deviant behavior. The author argues that such behavior is a symptom of unhappiness and that accompaniment can help individuals evolve and grow. Discover the importance of intersubjective...
Scientific American, Volume 217, The Split Brain in Man - Michael S. Gazzaniga (1967); Volume 289, Mind Readers - Philip Ross (2003); Cognitive Psychology, Volume 7, Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report - Elizabeth Loftus (1975)
Book review - 5 pages - Psychology
The document comments on 3 articles. Gazzaniga's article discusses the split-brain research that aimed to discover whether the right and left hemispheres of the brain were two distinct brains or simply parts of one brain. (...) Philip Ross' article focuses on research that monitors...
Asylums - Erving Goffman (1961)
Book review - 5 pages - Psychology
Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, is a book constituted of 4 essays by the American sociologist Erving Goffman. The book was published in 1961. In this book, Goffman explains how treatments in "Total institutions", and particularly...
The Present-Day Forms of Discontent in Culture - François Richard (2011) - Is the current discontent in our culture an extension of the Freudian concept of the superego or is it stemming from somewhere else?
Book review - 2 pages - Psychology
This article, published in the journal of psychoanalytical studies in 2011 by François Richard, sets out to analyse the current forms of discontent in culture from the point of view of psychoanalysis, specifically through the lenses of Sigmund Freud. The question at the heart of the article is...
TED, How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime - Nadine Burke Harris (2014); The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl (2010); What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness - Robert Waldinger (2015); The mysterious working of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2012); The power of believing that you can improve - Carol Dweck (2014); Psychology Today, This Is Your Child's Brain on Video Games - Victoria L. Dunckley (2016)
Book review - 5 pages - Psychology
After watching each TED Talk, from a list of 5 videos, and reading an article from Psychology Today, the document offers a summary and a brief analysis that integrates the science behind. Here is the list: TED, How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime - Nadine Burke Harris (2014);...
Transmitting Aggression through the Imitation of Aggressive Models - Albert Bandura (1961)
Book review - 3 pages - Psychology
Aggression in its multiple dimensions is a significant behavioural problem in the world currently. In the history of psychology, aggression stands out as a widely researched topic, particularly by social psychologists whose primary goal is to define it and study its causes. While there is a long...
Children of divorce : annotated bibiliography
Book review - 3 pages - Psychology
When divorce hits a family, it creates existential anxiety that influences the Children's ability to adjust and cope with the world. Divorce is a difficult phase in a child's life that produces long-term implications of adjustment, well-being and relationships with others and with God. The risk...
Civilization and its Discontents, Freud: the "death instinct" (chapter VI) - published: 29/09/2010
Book review - 1 pages - Psychology
To understand Freud's discussion of the death wish or « death instinct » in chapter VI of Civilization and its Discontents, suffice it to start with a paradox. The work of culture is placed under the authority of Eros, of a life force that aims at combining individuals into greater units and...
Understanding the 'Different Voice': Toward a theoretical framework of moral reasoning in women
Book review - 11 pages - Psychology
Professor Carol Gilligan originally published her book, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, in 1982. The popularity of the book caused the book to go through numerous printings and its reissuing in 1993 by Harvard University Press. Known as the “little book...
